"The old man's heart is like a knife, his heart is like numbness, he regrets that he shouldn't have been in the beginning, little baby, you should go!" The old ghost almost cried out tears and knelt on the ground and cried loudly, and the bluestones piled up under the wall seemed to be shattered by his barking sound. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

In a few moments, the brilliant starry sky was dyed with a black and oppressive cloud, surrounded on all sides, and hung high in the moonlight to form a strange pattern. Sometimes it's like an old man's face weeping, and sometimes it's like a baby's face smiling.

A white light flashed in the boundless sky, followed by another burst of fire and thunder from all directions. The lightning is flying and the cracking sound is loud. The mist is churning, and the black dust throws sand. On the dirt road, under the eaves. In front of the gate, behind the lotus pond, until the shadowy sky, a layer of white rain and mist splashed everywhere, like an ethereal white veil.

If the wind is a sharp pair of scissors, the rain and mist is a string of brilliant pearls. The wind blew the lines, and the rain broke the dew. The rain of bullets that fell straight down was like a broken orb of thread "la-la-la" sprinkled on the bumpy dirt road.

The rain gradually expanded, and there was standing water on all sides. The little boy's whole body was already soaked in muddy sewage, and the old ghost almost became a chicken in the rainstorm. The old ghost stood motionless in the heavy rain, looked down slightly at the pale face of the little boy, and unconsciously accompanied the rain in the corner of his eyes with a drop of gold and silver clear tears, trembling up and down his lips and said vaguely: "Little baby, the old man can't stand you, if you want to blame this sad world, it hurts you, they hurt you." ”

Unfortunately, the poor and pathetic little boy lay in a pool of blood and could not say a word. There were several bloody holes in his chest, and even the last of his face revealed a bit of sadness.

The old ghost dragged his body into the lobby and put it in the black coffin, and found dog blood and child urine and sprinkled it on the coffin lid, completely sealing the entire coffin. At the same time, he himself faced the coffin and said: "The old man will bury your body in the town forever now, so that you can always see our good brothers who have shared weal and woe with you." ”

As soon as these words fell, a person behind him came up and pushed him on the back, and opened his mouth to ask, "Old fox, what are you doing here?" ”

When the old ghost heard this, he hurriedly turned around, and as soon as he turned around, he was startled, and his forehead turned blue. Because the person who appeared in front of him this time was the little boy who was put into the coffin by himself before.

The little boy held a golden chrysanthemum in his left hand, put it in his right hand pocket, and held a soft and crispy little candy in his mouth. Squinting his eyes and curling his lips, he jumped in front of him and asked, "Old fox?" What are you doing here? ”

The old ghost leaned on the coffin with two numb legs, looked at the little boy in front of him with frightened eyes, and replied in a panic: "Are you a human or a ghost?" ”

The little boy was still smiling just now, and his face stiffened for a moment when he heard this harsh words. The little cherry-like lips shrank tightly, and the faint eyebrows were also connected into a line, and angrily threw the flowers in his hand directly to the ground, stomped his feet and bared his teeth and scolded: "Nonsense, of course I'm a ghost, where is this place from." ”

After the old ghost peed his pants, he stammered and asked, "The old man knows that you are a ghost, I am asking if you are dead?" ”

The little boy's eyes were full of murderous intent up and down, but he felt that his face was very cute, white and red, and red and white. As soon as he bit it, he went up and kicked him, scolding: "You are dead, you are dead, your family is dead." ”

The old ghost hurriedly explained: "Hey, that's not what the old man meant, I'm asking why you suddenly appeared here." The little boy ate the candy in his mouth and said as he chewed, "I'm not here, where can I be." ”

The old ghost immediately hurriedly looked back at the black coffin beside him, and there was an inexplicable creepy feeling in his heart, because he couldn't figure out who the little boy he had put into the coffin with his own hands before. However, he looked back at the little boy in front of him, and felt a little scary.

The little boy had a very normal mentality, took out a villain candy from his pocket, and took a step forward. handed it to the old ghost and said, "Do you want to eat a little, it's delicious." ”

The old ghost finally breathed a sigh of relief at this time, and his heart was no longer suspicious of the little boy in front of him. Because he knew very well that the little boy had always liked to eat candy, especially the little man's candy, and often went to the market alone to buy it. And the action of eating candy is also unique, the posture is very cute, as soon as you see him eating candy, you know that he is a real person. At least I was able to make sure that the little boy I had stabbed to death with a dagger was a fake.

When the little boy saw that the old ghost was almost in place, he stuffed the villain candy in his hand into his arms, and said, "There is only the last one left in this candy, if you don't eat it, there will really be no more." ”

The old ghost who was stunned by the coffin suddenly came back to his senses, nodded and reached out to take the slimy little candy, then at that moment, the old ghost suddenly noticed that there was something wrong with the boy, and asked, "Are you a woman?" ”

The little boy glared at him and exclaimed, "What? ”

"Why are you a girl?"

When the little boy heard the second question, his face turned a little red. Furrowing his crooked eyebrows, he turned his back and replied, "No, I'm a boy, you read it wrong. ”

The old ghost hurriedly smiled and said, "The old man just asks casually, you don't have to be so panicked, it has nothing to do with me whether it's male or female." ”

At this moment, the little boy turned around, snatched the villain candy back, and said, "If you don't eat it, give it to me." ”

The old ghost then took out a white steamed bun from his pocket, threw it to the little boy, and said, "This steamed bun will be eaten for you too, the old man can't eat it." ”

The little boy took the steamed bun and looked at it, but did not speak.

The old ghost almost stood up and turned around, looking at the black coffin in front of him, his legs were still faintly numb. He circled the black coffin several times, trying to open it, but he suddenly found that the inside of the coffin seemed to be sealed with nails, even if it washed away all the blood, it would be useless.

The little boy also looked at the black coffin and said, "Who is lying there?" ”

The old ghost said, "The person lying inside is you, but he is a fake." ”

The old ghost almost turned around immediately, looked at the little boy beside him, reached out and patted his shoulders tightly, and asked in a very heavy tone, "Where did you go before?" Have you ever followed us into a cave? ”

The little boy's face was very blank, and he asked puzzledly, "Cave?" What caves? I don't know, I've been in the lobby all along. ”

The old ghost asked, "What are you doing in the lobby?" ”

The little boy replied, "I'm looking for something to eat in the lobby, otherwise what will we eat, what will we eat tomorrow, and what will we eat the day after tomorrow." ”

The old ghost didn't ask, after making sure that this was the real little boy in front of him, the two little boys he met before must have been disguised by someone else. But why they want to pretend to be this little boy who has no value at all, until now the old ghost still can't figure it out.

When the little boy saw his strange expression, he asked, "What happened?" What about the old man? What about the dwarfs? Where have they gone? ”

The old ghost sighed, "They are all dead, and they will never come back." There were only two of us left in the whole town, and nothing else existed. ”

The little boy's face was full of shock, and he asked, "Then what should we do now?" ”

The old ghost said, "Listen, we must escape from this town, but before we can do so, we must first burn this coffin, and we can't keep it, otherwise we will take the coffin out of the coffin when the moon is full." At that time, we will all die without a place to bury. ”

The little boy nodded and said, "Well, then I'll help you." ”

The old ghost said: "Go outside and find some firewood, it's raining very hard now, you can go out in a while." ”

When the little boy heard this, he suddenly couldn't help laughing, and said, "What are you talking about?" It's not raining outside at all. ”

The old ghost also felt that something was wrong after hearing this, and there was silence everywhere in his ears, and there was no sound of rain coming from outside the hall at all. He turned his head to look out the door, and when he reached the threshold, he found that the ground outside the door was dry and dry, let alone raining, and there was not even dew on the grass.

It was still pouring rain before, and the water on the streets was almost knee-deep. But in the blink of an eye, there was a earth-shaking change, and the old ghost couldn't believe what was going on, and even felt that it was his own hallucination before. He immediately looked back at the little boy and asked curiously, "Hasn't it rained all day today?" ”

The little boy replied in the affirmative: "Yes, yes, let alone today, there has not been a drop of rain in the past few days." ”

The old ghost looked left and right again, and swept all over the eaves roof, on the wall, and in the loess, but there was still no trace of these places being wet by the rain. And the dress I was wearing was dried at some point.

The little boy immediately jumped out of the lobby and said casually, "I'll go and get you some dry firewood." ”

The old ghost immediately stopped: "No, it seems that this place can't stay for a moment, let's escape quickly, the coffin is left there, we don't care, as long as we can get out of this town, we will have more feasible routes in the future." ”

The little boy said, "So where are we going?" ”

The old ghost held his breath, sighed, looked up at the sky again, and said slowly with a blank face: "How did we come before, how can we go back now." Outside, there are wooden houses and caves, jackals, tigers and leopards can protect us, and birds and animals can guide us. Without further ado, let's go. ”

The little boy answered, went back to the barracks, packed up some simple shapes, took some bits and pieces of wild vegetables, and put them in his baggage. The old ghost also took two iron swords and carried them with him, and if he encountered something unexpected on the way, he could take them out as a self-defense weapon. If you encounter a wild monkey on the mountain, you can stab it to death. If you hit a demon snake in a cave, you can also slash it with a sword. The old ghost almost felt that there was no danger, so he left the yafu with the little boy.

The two crossed the rough dirt road and crossed the wide straight. From time to time in the dark night, I saw two black shadows flashing back and forth, and soon the old and the young came to the city gate.

The little boy looked up at the two corpses hanging from the gatehouse, and immediately stretched out his finger to the top and whispered, "Look, it's them, it's them." ”

The old ghost said: "Be quiet, I know it's them, don't alarm those two corpses, they may not be able to hear you, if they suddenly open their eyes, I will wait." ”

The little boy didn't dare to speak, and slipped out of the city gate along the road with the old ghost. However, there are two roads ahead, one is a dirt road, and the two sides are rugged and lead to the pier. On the other side is a mountain road, which leads up and down to the desert.

The old ghost almost chose the mountain road without hesitation, because the dock was no longer able to go. Then he turned around and dragged the little boy by the arm and walked in that direction. The little boy shrank back, reluctant to move forward, and shouted: "The road ahead leads to the human world, all the way is the desert, after the desert is the ghost airport, after the airport is the otherworldly city, you and I are ghosts, if you go, you will not be able to come back." ”

The old ghost said, "What are you afraid of?" Is there no wild ghost drifting in the human world? If they go, we can't. If you go, you will have life, but if you don't go, you can only sit and wait. ”

The little boy said: "I can't go, I can't go, you and I have been dead for thousands of years, although the appearance is not convenient, but the heart is old." If you go now, you will be in great trouble. ”

In a fit of rage, the old ghost knocked the little boy unconscious, and carried his body all the way to the mountain road. And this mountain road is very crooked, and there is no end to any road. The old ghost continued to walk forward, his footsteps did not stop, and his movements were very fast.

The further he went, the more he hurried to his back and became heavy. It was as if he was being moved around by a large rock, and at this moment his forehead was covered with countless grains of sweat.

The old ghost subconsciously looked back, and put the little boy down with both hands, and when he looked at it, he found that he was indeed holding a big stone in his hand, and the little boy was already gone.

The old ghost had no choice but to go back again. I didn't go back to the previous city gate, only to find that the little boy who had been knocked out by myself was still lying in place, his body motionless. Although he was very panicked in his heart, he still picked up the little boy's body again and continued to walk on the mountain road.

But after a few minutes of walking, the same situation happened again. The old ghost felt a desolation behind him again, and it was very heavy, so he had no choice but to look back again. However, at this moment, he was surprised to find that he was still carrying a large and incomparably hard stone behind his back.

The old ghost threw down the stone in his hand, and then ran back to the gate of the city. The little boy was still lying in place, still panting in his nose, as if he had just fainted. This time, instead of carrying his back behind him, he directly hugged the little boy's body in his arms, his left eye focused on his face, and his right eye focused on opening the way for his legs.

This time, the speed of movement became slower than before, basically one step at a time, in the direction of the mountain road. After walking for a few minutes, the old ghost had been staring at the little boy's face, this time not turning back into a big stone, but his face was a little white.

The old ghost looked at the endless mountain road ahead, and felt a little uneasy in his heart. And as long as you walk a certain distance forward, you can feel that your body is more frivolous, and even your feet are almost unable to step on the loess.

At the same time, although the little boy in his arms did not turn into stone, his whole body clearly felt that it was aggravating, as if his two hands were holding a large bell weighing a thousand pounds.

The footprints under the feet are getting deeper and deeper, and they are completely sunken in. The old ghost almost squatted down and put down the little boy, his body was so tired that he couldn't straighten his waist. He reached out and wiped the hot sweat from his face, and was about to sit down and rest for a while. At this moment, the little boy suddenly opened his two black glasses and looked at him with a stiff face.

The old ghost was almost startled, hurriedly jumped back, and shouted loudly: "What's wrong with you, what's wrong with you, it's okay." ”

The little boy slowly got up from the ground, straightened his body, slowly moved his body to approach it, straightened his body and replied with a strange expression: "I'm going to hit you, I'm going to hit you!" ”

The old ghost kicked his legs back again, and replied with a panicked expression: "The old man didn't mean it, I just wanted to help you." ”

The little boy slowly slipped out of his sleeve and took out a sharp dagger, and his two hands were tightly clasped together, and he kept leaning towards the old ghost step by step.

The old ghost was so frightened that his face turned blue at the moment, his whole body turned white, and he couldn't tell where the southeast and northwest were, and he felt that his soul was about to be frightened, so he was paralyzed to the ground, and kept rubbing the soil on the ground with his two hands and shrinking back.

The little boy took another step forward, raised the dagger in his hand high, and his face became very terrifying at this moment.

The old ghost hurriedly said: "Don't, the old man is trying to save you, really, you must believe me." ”

When the little boy heard this, he suddenly threw away the dagger, found a long stick from the grass, continued to point at his nose, bit the upper and lower rows of teeth, and said, "I want to hit him!" ”

The old ghost begged: "Even if you beat the old man to death, it's useless, you can't get rid of the hatred in your heart." ”

The little boy's stiff face smiled again at this moment, and suddenly his hands loosened, threw down the long stick in his hand, bent his eyebrows, and said with a smile: "Haha, you were deceived by me, were you scared?" ”

The old ghost was almost confused, and said urgently: "What? What's going on? ”

The little boy smiled: "Actually, I just want to tease you, and there is no malice, who let you just hit me." ”

The old ghost was relieved at this time, and said slowly: "Look at you, what are you doing to scare the old man, the old man, I have a heart attack, what if you are scared of something, you have to be responsible." ”

The little boy said, "Okay, I won't play with you, old fox, let's go, no matter where you go, I will follow you." ”

The old ghost almost clutched his chest and breathed a sigh of relief. However, at this time, a little boy's voice came from behind him again, "Old fox, I'm here, who are you talking to?" ”

When the old ghost heard the voice, he suddenly turned around, only to find that not far from him, a little boy was standing waving to him, and his face was extremely nervous.

The old ghost's expression became more surprised at this time, and he slowly looked back at the little boy beside him, only to find that the little boy beside him had already turned into a big stone, and the previous figure disappeared in front of his eyes strangely.

The little boy not far away immediately ran over, looked around, and said, "Old fox, who were you talking to just now?" How do you think you're talking to the air? ”

The old ghost looked at the big stone in front of him again, and sighed, "The old man was talking to a stone just now." ”

The little boy exclaimed, "Why are you talking to a rock?" ”

The old ghost said: "It's just talking to a stone, where did you just go, why didn't I see you." ”

The little boy smiled and said, "I just saw you knock on the ground with a wooden stick, and then you ran to the mountain road, and I followed you, but I couldn't catch up with you, how could you run so fast, I couldn't keep up with you." ”

The old ghost got up from the ground, turned back to the little boy and said, "Let's go quickly, if we don't leave, we will really die here, this place is more evil than the human world, if you want to stay, the old man will go!" ”

The little boy said, "If you go, I will follow you, how can I be here alone, it's always not good." ”

"Let's go, then." After the old ghost finished speaking, he raised his legs and walked forward, looked ahead again, and found that there was a yellow trail at the end, vague and unclear, it seemed to be like an open desert.

As soon as the little boy walked up, he pointed to the road ahead, and said, "That is the desert, and it is said that the unjust ghosts and ghosts who have just died will come from there, and then come to our town, and are captured by the ghosts." ”

The old ghost almost nodded and said, "Yes, that place is the way for new souls to the underworld, and there are many gathering places for unjust souls, maybe there are still many of them wandering there." ”

The little boy took out a kettle full of water from his baggage, and when he took it in his hand, he took a sip of it, swallowed it in his stomach, and then took a second sip. The old ghost almost looked back and wondered, "What are you doing here?" ”

The little boy handed him the kettle in his hand and said, "It's full of salt, you take it in your mouth and don't spit it out." ”

(To be continued)